Wednesday, February 17, 2016

SCIENCE BECOMES POETRY

THE POETRY OF SCIENCE

Newton and Leibniz sat on a wall,

Newton and Leibniz had a great fall,

And all the great forces of intellectual ken

Cannot put infinitesimals back together again!

THE TIPPING POINT

We are, at long last, at the point in the history of science
where science becomes poetry. Distinctions are the words, logic the meter, and
the description of reality the poem. Like any good poem, the new science, TDVP,
paints an enthralling picture. The dimensional domains of space, time and
consciousness form the canvas, the calculus of distinctions is the paint, and
the universe is the picture. Gimmel completes the picture, integrating the
various parts, putting it all back together again.

Since the miraculous, inverse penultimate one-fifth of a century,
1905 to 1935, with the one-two punch of relativity and quantum mechanics,
science has been fragmented. The approach has been reductionistic: take reality
apart to see how it works. The extreme application of this approach is particle
physics. Blast atoms apart and look at the pieces. We’ve smashed the watch with
a hammer, now can we put it back together again?

Humpty-Dumpty is a story of entropy: once broken, he can’t
be put back together as he was before the fall. You can’t un-ring a bell. The
arrow of time, you know. But how vain and egoistic are we to imagine that we
can undo nature, put asunder what God has brought together? But gimmel does
what seems impossible in the physical world, it puts it all back together again,
Thanks to gimmel, Nature reigns supreme with her super symmetry, and God is
still on his throne!

GIMMEL AND THE ‘I AM’

In 1977, my first book, “The Book of Atma” was published.
The introduction started with the following poem:

Now that we have answered the question ‘why is there
something?’ with the discovery of gimmel, in keeping with Gӧdel’s infinity and
Einstein’s relative curiosity, we can ask a new question: Does God, or Nature,
or whatever you want to call integrated reality, have any choice in the way the
universe is constructed?

“Although all forms, and thus all universes, are possible,
and any particular form is mutable, it becomes evident that the laws relating
such forms are the same in any universe.”